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Loggers Use ‘Unskilled’ Visas to Roll Over Immigration Law; Northwoods Democrats Object
August 01, 2022
 

Bob Dane
Executive Director

A border skirmish has broken out over foreign truckers employed on H-2A visas. But the battle isn’t being waged by Texas Republicans. This time, Maine Democrats are working to save American jobs. As usual, it’s an uphill fight.

Maine loggers accuse Canadians of violating cabotage laws by using H2-A visas to illegally transport timber within the United States. Cabotage agreements between Mexico, Canada and the U.S. allow each country’s truck drivers to use B-1 visas to participate in international commerce, but not in another nation’s domestic market.

Acting on reports that Canadian truckers were detouring around the B-1 rule via H2-A — a classification for unskilled agricultural workers — Maine’s Democratic Legislature passed, and Democratic Gov. Janet Mills signed, a law banning the practice.

https://www.fairus.org/blog/2022/08/01/loggers-use-unskilled-visas-roll-over-immigration-law-northwoods-democrats-object
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